Episode guide
Keeping Up Appearances: Specials
25 episodes · premiered Dec 25, 1991
Christmas may come but once a year, but for arch-snob Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet, if you please), disaster, drama and humiliation – all obstacles on the ladder to social-climbing success – are far more frequent. In these Christmas Specials we see a delightful cruise on the QE2 start in a less-than-delightful muddy field. We see a glorious English Civil War pageant, with Hyacinth as Queen Henrietta Maria, go royally wrong when the cast fails to turn up and her unsavoury relatives step into the breach. And we see that even The Season of Good Will isn’t immune from woe, as a sherry-fuelled Richard, dressed as Santa, brings Hyacinth tidings devoid of any comfort and joy.
- Episode 1: The Father Christmas Suit Dec 25, 1991 · 30m Hyacinth has bought Richard a Father Christmas outfit for him to wear when distributing gifts to the old people at the Church Hall. Against his will, Richard puts on the outfit, but after…
- Episode 2: Sea Fever Dec 26, 1993 · 1h Hyacinth and Richard prepare for their luxury stay on the QE2. Yet traffic, a muddy field and too much luggage result in a disastrous start to a holiday that only gets much worse for…
- Episode 3: Angel Gabriel Blue Dec 25, 1994 · 49m Hyacinth is in search for her dream kitchen while Richard has developed a fungus infection, not to his wife's approval. As a result, Hyacinth claims it is gout, a disease supposedly caught…
- Episode 4: Children In Need Special Dec 24, 1995 · 7m Daddy has died, just when Hyacinth is expecting people for a candlelight supper, finger buffet and a first showing of her holiday slides.
- Episode 5: Historical Pageant Dec 25, 1995 · 30m Hyacinth and Richard arrive at the Church hall as Hyacinth organises a Pageant based on the English Civil War, with herself as Queen Henrietta Maria and Richard as Charles I. However all…
- Episode 6: Mr. Blobby meets Hyacinth Bucket 4m A clip from Noel's House Party where Mr. Blobby pays Hyacinth and Richard a visit.
- Episode 7: The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket Mar 1, 1997 · 1h 1m Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from previous episodes.
- Episode 8: Comedy Connections - Keeping Up Appearances Jul 26, 2004 · 30m The documentary series Comedy Connections featured an episode dedicated to Keeping Up Appearances. Stars Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell and David Griffin, along with writer…
- Episode 9: Life Lessons from Onslow Nov 30, 2007 · 59m You'll laugh too hard to take notes when Hyacinth's beer-drinking and philosophizing brother-in-law, Onslow, gives a lecture on successful human relationships, using examples from Keeping…
- Episode 10: Interview with Judy Cornwell 12m An interview with Judy Cornwell
- Episode 11: Interview with Patricia Routledge Nov 30, 2007 · 15m An interview with Patricia Routledge
- Episode 12: Pebble Mill Interview Nov 30, 2007 · 10m Pebble Mill interviews Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift.
- Episode 13: The Kitty Monologues 19m From the character Kitty that Patricia Routledge played on Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.
- Episode 14: Second Chance Short 2m Exclusive UK commercial featuring Hyacinth and Elizabeth.
- Episode 15: Funny Women 30m Profile of Patricia Routledge
- Episode 16: Series 1 Outtakes 4m
- Episode 17: Series 2 Outtakes, pt1 3m
- Episode 18: Series 2 Outtakes, pt2 3m
- Episode 19: Series 3 Outtakes 5m
- Episode 20: Series 4 Outtakes 7m
- Episode 21: Series 5 Outtakes, pt1 2m
- Episode 22: Series 5 Outtakes, pt2 3m
- Episode 23: The History Of
- Episode 24: Hyacinth Revealed - Newly Recorded Interviews 37m Newly recorded interviews with Patricia Routledge, Roy Clarke and others.
- Episode 25: Young Hyacinth Sep 2, 2016 Long before she became Mrs Bucket, young Hyacinth was already dreaming of matching china and a bedroom in pastel shades. But her desperate attempts to transform her sisters and her darling…